UNIVERSALITY OF THE INDIAN CONCEPT OF "GOD"

In Bhagavad Gita Sri Krishna declares " In whatever way people worship me, I grace them in the same way, since all people are following ''my way" only."(Gita-4.11). I think this is the most universal declaration of any religion or faith. At innumerable places in the Gita we find statements to the effect that God exists in all creatures of the world. He has no friends or foes,is the most impartial, is untouched by all the activities of the body, exists like a witness to all actions, is permanent, spread all over the universe, and runs everything in this Universe. He does not grant any boon or curse anybody, as every one reaps the fruits of their previous actions. God resides in every being, as the soul, which is like a reflection of the moon in a puddle of water. A wind may churn the puddle of water, and the reflection may get distorted, but the moon is unaffected by this process. Similarly, the individual soul experiences pleasure/pain, heat/cold etc through its attachment to the body, but the eternal soul is unaffected.

Of all the creations in this world, man is the most perfect because he has the faculty of reasonong with which to analyse what he experiences in the world and realize the truth that all the multiplicity we see in the universe have one origin-the eternal spirit or God, are supported by the God, and eventually get dissolved in the God.